The portal ‘Nationalist’ as the nutshell of recent Serbian nationalism

ABSTRACT

Since the end of the bloodshed of the nineties, Serbia has all but ceased to exist in the spotlight of the international community, as well as within scholarly production. Yet virulent nationalism and Orthodoxy-based national identities have never left, and are now found in online spaces as well. This article concentrates on the contemporary portal The Nationalist, founded and led by a nefarious nationalist, Miroljub Petrović, who has recently gotten into the center of attention both in Serbian online spaces, as well as in public life.

KEYWORDS:

• The Nationalist
• Serbia
• nationalism
• Orthodoxy
• Miroljub Petrović

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Notes on contributor

Srđan Mladenov Jovanović is an interdisciplinary historian and political scientist, living and working in Tianjin, China, as an Associate Professor at the College of History, Nankai University. Prior to moving to China, he taught and/or conducted research at Lund University (Sweden), the Polish Academy of Sciences' Institute for Advanced Study (Poland), Palacky University Olomouc (Czech Republic), University of Košice (Slovakia), New Europe College (Romania), and Istanbul Sehir University (Turkey). He is the author of a number of research articles and several books, as well as the holder of numerous fellowships on an international levels. He speaks English, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, and Swedish, with working knowledge of Russian, German, Polish, Slovak, Italian, and Mandarin.